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Ask HN: Please review my new website
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Re: Ask HN: Please review my new website
#22This site reminds of MG Siegler's (the TC writer) site Reviews in Haiku: http://reviewinhaiku.com/
While I like the idea of your site, I think the minimalist approach of Reviews in Haiku is ideal for micro-reviews. I was a little distracted by everything on your site.
Good luck!
Re: Ask HN: Please review my new website
#23What does this do that Rotten Tomatoes doesn't do better?
A few years ago, when Rotten Tomatoes began, it was beautiful in its simplicity. Now it's a bloated slow-loading mess. Just a few days ago, I was looking for a simple b.s. free site like this--and here it is!
Re: Ask HN: Please review my new website
#24Is this the site you were asking about in http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=622042 What did you choose ?
:) That was for another website. In the end I used the advice I got here and told them to up the offer or to forget about it.
They didn't up the offer enough so it never went any further. It's been about 8 months now and I don't believe they have done anything with their idea so I guess I made the right decision. If you're interested the site mentioned in that link is this one: http://www.lost.ie
Re: Ask HN: Please review my new website
#25This site reminds of MG Siegler's (the TC writer) site Reviews in Haiku: http://reviewinhaiku.com/ While I like the idea of your site, I think the minimalist approach of Reviews in Haiku is ideal for micro-reviews. I was a little distracted by everything on your site. Good luck!
:) That's fantastic. I haven't seen that site before.
Re: Ask HN: Please review my new website
#26Some of the reviews of movies were two sentences, unlike this review of your website.
Yeah, it used to be that it would check for a period in the users review and prevent them from entering any more text once that was encountered but people started getting around it by-writing-their-reviews-like-this or using commas everywhere a full stop should have been, in the end I just went with the 140 character rule ala twitter. This made more sense since we would be heavily integrating with twitter.
Re: Ask HN: Please review my new website
#27Great idea. But: what I see there are not reviews, they're summaries. One-sentence reviews would be great, but a review should help me decide if I should see the movie, not summarize the plot. "Intertwining couples and singles in Los Angeles break-up and make-up based on the pressures and expectations of Valentine's Day." is not useful to me at all.
Ah hang on. I see now that you do have reviews. The reviews should be front-and-center on the homepage (and make it simpler), NOT the summaries. I wouldn't even show the summaries, they just get in the way. Overall, the design is slick but there's too much going on, conflicting with your goal of simplicity in 1-sentence reviews.
Thanks for this. I can't see the woods for the trees having worked on the site morning, noon and night so it's easy for me to miss these kinds of things. To me they seem obvious, but then they would since I implemented it. I'll be changing this very soon.
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#28I like the concept, but the site design is really over the top for something that should ideally be very minimal. An entire screen of real estate barely holds 3 "one sentence reviews".
I actually really like the design. Sometimes too minimal can be... too minimal when you are talking about very small pieces of content like a once sentence description and a one sentence review.
As far as one screen barely holding 3 reviews, I don't want to see much more. I don't want 10 reviews stuck into a small space. The layout with a good sized picture and an acceptable amount of space around everything is really nice.
Re: Ask HN: Please review my new website
#29I agree that the design is a bit overdone, but I don't think it's too bad.
The most annoying thing to me is that several of the snippets are more than one sentence long. :(
Re: Ask HN: Please review my new website
#30Great idea, this is typically how people review films and albums to their friends - a short sentence. It will be interesting to see how it develops with more content. The short sentence format sounds compatible with some sort of Twitter interaction. Have you considered allowing users to tweet their review and use a hash tag to reference your site and the film in question? Or have it the other way round - they can sig…
My wife "reviews" movies in a different fashion, and as a loving husband, I've learned to adjust.
Me: What's the movie about?
Her: It's starring Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts.
Me: Oh, who's in it?
Her: It's about them having to crack the code to some....
Anyways. I've learned to ask "Who's in it?" first. And it works like a charm.